Maelin comments on [LINK] blog on cryonics by someone who freezes things in a cell bio lab - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Maelin 23 October 2012 05:11:01AM 0 points [-]

Clarification: the current state of the art in neural preservation doesn't preserve amounts of state in zebrafish brains that are recoverable in usable form by the current state of the art.

If we had the ability to recover the information in usable form today, there would be no need for cryonics to exist.

Comment author: David_Gerard 23 October 2012 07:12:32AM 0 points [-]

You're assuming the information is even preserved. Neuroscientists look at what cryonics does and say "what on earth, the information is lost." (Again, that post wasn't that long ago.)